Specify charset in WWW-Authenticate for Basic Auth

In this commit, we add support for the charset from RFC-7617, which
definitely solves the problem when the client does not know what charset
we are parsing with.

Closes: gh-18755

Signed-off-by: Andrey Litvitski <andrey1010102008@gmail.com>
This commit is contained in:
Andrey Litvitski 2026-02-18 22:20:35 +03:00 committed by Josh Cummings
parent c7235ec0a3
commit d1ce69ca99
7 changed files with 60 additions and 13 deletions

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@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ public class NamespaceHttpTests {
// @formatter:off
this.mockMvc.perform(get("/"))
.andExpect(status().isUnauthorized())
.andExpect(header().string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"RealmConfig\""));
.andExpect(header().string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"RealmConfig\", charset=\"UTF-8\""));
// @formatter:on
}

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@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ public class HttpBasicConfigurerTests {
// @formatter:off
this.mvc.perform(get("/"))
.andExpect(status().isUnauthorized())
.andExpect(header().string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"Realm\""));
.andExpect(header().string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"Realm\", charset=\"UTF-8\""));
// @formatter:on
}
@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ public class HttpBasicConfigurerTests {
// @formatter:off
this.mvc.perform(get("/"))
.andExpect(status().isUnauthorized())
.andExpect(header().string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"Realm\""));
.andExpect(header().string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"Realm\", charset=\"UTF-8\""));
// @formatter:on
}

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@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ public class NamespaceHttpBasicTests {
// @formatter:off
this.mvc.perform(requestWithInvalidPassword)
.andExpect(status().isUnauthorized())
.andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE, "Basic realm=\"Realm\""));
.andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE, "Basic realm=\"Realm\", charset=\"UTF-8\""));
// @formatter:on
MockHttpServletRequestBuilder requestWithValidPassword = get("/").with(httpBasic("user", "password"));
this.mvc.perform(requestWithValidPassword).andExpect(status().isNotFound());
@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ public class NamespaceHttpBasicTests {
// @formatter:off
this.mvc.perform(requestWithInvalidPassword)
.andExpect(status().isUnauthorized())
.andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE, "Basic realm=\"Realm\""));
.andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE, "Basic realm=\"Realm\", charset=\"UTF-8\""));
// @formatter:on
MockHttpServletRequestBuilder requestWithValidPassword = get("/").with(httpBasic("user", "password"));
this.mvc.perform(requestWithValidPassword).andExpect(status().isNotFound());
@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ public class NamespaceHttpBasicTests {
// @formatter:off
this.mvc.perform(requestWithInvalidPassword)
.andExpect(status().isUnauthorized())
.andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE, "Basic realm=\"Custom Realm\""));
.andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE, "Basic realm=\"Custom Realm\", charset=\"UTF-8\""));
// @formatter:on
}
@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ public class NamespaceHttpBasicTests {
// @formatter:off
this.mvc.perform(requestWithInvalidPassword)
.andExpect(status().isUnauthorized())
.andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE, "Basic realm=\"Custom Realm\""));
.andExpect(header().string(HttpHeaders.WWW_AUTHENTICATE, "Basic realm=\"Custom Realm\", charset=\"UTF-8\""));
// @formatter:on
}

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@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ public class NamespaceHttpBasicTests {
// @formatter:on
this.springSecurityFilterChain.doFilter(this.request, this.response, this.chain);
assertThat(this.response.getStatus()).isEqualTo(HttpServletResponse.SC_UNAUTHORIZED);
assertThat(this.response.getHeader("WWW-Authenticate")).isEqualTo("Basic realm=\"Realm\"");
assertThat(this.response.getHeader("WWW-Authenticate")).isEqualTo("Basic realm=\"Realm\", charset=\"UTF-8\"");
}
private void loadContext(String context) {

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@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ class HttpBasicDslTests {
this.mockMvc.get("/")
.andExpect {
header { string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"Realm\"") }
header { string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"Realm\", charset=\"UTF-8\"") }
}
}
@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ class HttpBasicDslTests {
this.mockMvc.get("/")
.andExpect {
header { string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"Custom Realm\"") }
header { string("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"Custom Realm\", charset=\"UTF-8\"") }
}
}

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@ -17,6 +17,8 @@
package org.springframework.security.web.authentication.www;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import jakarta.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
@ -40,11 +42,14 @@ import org.springframework.util.Assert;
* authorized, causing it to prompt the user to login again.
*
* @author Ben Alex
* @author Andrey Litvitski
*/
public class BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint implements AuthenticationEntryPoint, InitializingBean {
private @Nullable String realmName;
private @Nullable Charset charset = StandardCharsets.UTF_8;
@Override
public void afterPropertiesSet() {
Assert.hasText(this.realmName, "realmName must be specified");
@ -53,7 +58,11 @@ public class BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint implements AuthenticationEntryPoint,
@Override
public void commence(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response,
AuthenticationException authException) throws IOException {
response.setHeader("WWW-Authenticate", "Basic realm=\"" + this.realmName + "\"");
String header = "Basic realm=\"" + this.realmName + "\"";
if (this.charset != null) {
header += ", charset=\"" + this.charset.name() + "\"";
}
response.setHeader("WWW-Authenticate", header);
response.sendError(HttpStatus.UNAUTHORIZED.value(), HttpStatus.UNAUTHORIZED.getReasonPhrase());
}
@ -65,4 +74,17 @@ public class BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint implements AuthenticationEntryPoint,
this.realmName = realmName;
}
/**
* Sets the charset to include in the {@code WWW-Authenticate} response header. By
* default, it is set to {@link StandardCharsets#UTF_8}. Set to {@code null} to omit
* the charset attribute from the header. As per RFC 7617, only UTF-8 is permitted.
* @param charset the charset to use ({@link StandardCharsets#UTF_8} is the only
* accepted value), or {@code null} to remove the charset attribute
*/
public void setCharset(@Nullable Charset charset) {
Assert.isTrue(charset == null || StandardCharsets.UTF_8.equals(charset),
"RFC 7617 only permits UTF-8 as the charset for Basic authentication");
this.charset = charset;
}
}

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@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ import org.springframework.http.HttpHeaders;
import org.springframework.http.HttpStatus;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletRequest;
import org.springframework.mock.web.MockHttpServletResponse;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.BadCredentialsException;
import org.springframework.security.authentication.DisabledException;
import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThat;
@ -34,6 +35,7 @@ import static org.assertj.core.api.Assertions.assertThatIllegalArgumentException
* Tests {@link BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint}.
*
* @author Ben Alex
* @author Andrey Litvitski
*/
public class BasicAuthenticationEntryPointTests {
@ -62,7 +64,7 @@ public class BasicAuthenticationEntryPointTests {
ep.commence(request, response, new DisabledException("These are the jokes kid"));
assertThat(response.getStatus()).isEqualTo(401);
assertThat(response.getErrorMessage()).isEqualTo(HttpStatus.UNAUTHORIZED.getReasonPhrase());
assertThat(response.getHeader("WWW-Authenticate")).isEqualTo("Basic realm=\"hello\"");
assertThat(response.getHeader("WWW-Authenticate")).isEqualTo("Basic realm=\"hello\", charset=\"UTF-8\"");
}
// gh-13737
@ -77,7 +79,30 @@ public class BasicAuthenticationEntryPointTests {
ep.commence(request, response, new DisabledException("Disabled"));
List<String> headers = response.getHeaders("WWW-Authenticate");
assertThat(headers).hasSize(1);
assertThat(headers.get(0)).isEqualTo("Basic realm=\"hello\"");
assertThat(headers.get(0)).isEqualTo("Basic realm=\"hello\", charset=\"UTF-8\"");
}
@Test
void commenceWhenDefaultThenIncludesUtf8Charset() throws Exception {
BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint entryPoint = new BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint();
entryPoint.setRealmName("TestRealm");
entryPoint.afterPropertiesSet();
MockHttpServletRequest request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
MockHttpServletResponse response = new MockHttpServletResponse();
entryPoint.commence(request, response, new BadCredentialsException("test"));
assertThat(response.getHeader("WWW-Authenticate")).isEqualTo("Basic realm=\"TestRealm\", charset=\"UTF-8\"");
}
@Test
void commenceWhenCharsetIsNullThenOmitsCharset() throws Exception {
BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint entryPoint = new BasicAuthenticationEntryPoint();
entryPoint.setRealmName("TestRealm");
entryPoint.setCharset(null);
entryPoint.afterPropertiesSet();
MockHttpServletRequest request = new MockHttpServletRequest();
MockHttpServletResponse response = new MockHttpServletResponse();
entryPoint.commence(request, response, new BadCredentialsException("test"));
assertThat(response.getHeader("WWW-Authenticate")).isEqualTo("Basic realm=\"TestRealm\"");
}
}